Virtual Desktop Job Trends in Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Virtual Desktop skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 143 176
Rank change year-on-year -35 +33 +103
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Desktop 3 1 20
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 0.068% 0.042% 0.43%
As % of the System Software category 0.83% 0.36% 2.81%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 15
10th Percentile £30,250 - £26,500
25th Percentile £30,625 £32,500 £27,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £35,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% -17.65% -24.44%
75th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £57,250
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -3.67%

All System Software Skills
Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 363 274 712
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 8.25% 11.44% 15.20%
Number of salaries quoted 260 207 589
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £97,906 £67,500
England median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -9.09%

Virtual Desktop
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Desktop relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Virtual Desktop job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Virtual Desktop
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Virtual Desktop.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Virtual Desktop

Virtual Desktop
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Desktop within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 5 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire - 2 £32,500 - 1
South Yorkshire - 1 £30,000 -
Virtual Desktop
England

Virtual Desktop
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Acrobat
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 2 (66.67%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) IT Asset Management
1 2 (66.67%) Preventative Maintenance
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) XenDesktop
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (33.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Adobe
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Commvault
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet